Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The cubs will be released onto private estates where the staff can keep their eyes on them .
2 Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own .
3 because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they
4 The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle .
5 In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young .
6 Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly .
7 It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order .
8 It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order .
9 But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist .
10 They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises .
11 Go further up and you reach ultrasonic frequencies where the noise can be heard by dogs and not humans .
12 The anecdotal evidence is that parties often want informal , non-legalistic meetings where the expert can hear what the parties ' non-legal representatives have to say , without any lawyers being present .
13 Quadrant 4 covers the type of innovative activities where the goals and outputs can be fairly well specified and the means to achieve them are relatively clear .
14 One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced .
15 There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate .
16 If we pause briefly and attempt to list the possible reasons why an individual or a family might have needed parish relief in the late 18th and early 19th centuries — sickness , unemployment , the needs of one-parent families or of orphans or young children , support in times of local or national economic crisis , old age — then we have now found Titfords in every category .
17 Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure .
18 Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh .
19 It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen .
20 A young mother living in a damp flat with unheated bedrooms where the mould appears in charcoal blots across the wall , has a child who has suffered several bouts of pneumonia and now has chest convulsions .
21 Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision .
22 In private settings where the field man needs some seemingly objective , unambiguous evidence to support his demands for remedial action , sample results are also useful , though most dischargers are prepared to accept the field man 's personal assessment of the nature of the pollution .
23 Apart from a few nouns which allow a choice of singular or plural concord ( e.g. The committee is/are considering the question ) , the choice of singular in English rules out the possibility of plural reference by default , and vice versa .
24 Public affairs , local authority , government , financial , and charity public relations all call for different talents so the people working in these areas often have very different educational backgrounds and work experience from those doing consumer public relations .
25 Although there were few States where the Republicans were as deeply entrenched as the Democrats were in their southern strongholds , there were several where the need for large welfare state payments to win votes for a marginal government was low .
26 VAUXHALL LEAGUE teams could well be in the vanguard of the non-League assault on England 's top clubs when the FA Cup third-round draw is made on BBC1 tomorrow night .
27 But each has different effects at different ages so the balance is sensitive to changes in age structure ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) .
28 ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening .
29 Although , from a tax point of view , an assets purchase is relatively straightforward , there are many commercial reasons why an acquisition of Target may be preferred by both vendor and Newco , even though Target may have unquantified liabilities .
30 They insisted their project had a backer but there were commercial reasons why the details could not be revealed until the deal was finalised .
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